126 SANDUSKY FLORA. 



VACCINIACE/E. 



GAYLUSSAC1A, H. B. K. Huckleberry. 



H. resinosa, Torr & Gray. Black Huckleberry. 

 Oxford and east ; frequent. 



OXYCOCCUS, Hill. Cranberry. 



O. macrocarpus, Pers. Large or American Cranberry. 

 Milan; nearly exterminated. "Formerly east of 

 Berlin Heights and plentiful near Axtel." 



VACCINIUM, L. Blueberry. 



V. corymbosum, L. High-bush or Swamp Blueberry. 

 A few bushes on and near Tisdale's Vermillion, 

 and in the old swamp near Axtel where years 

 ago, " grew a thousand bushels of berries." See 

 page 31. 



V. pennsylyanicum, Lam. Dwarf Blueberry. 

 Vermillion River, Vermillion ; rare. 



V. vacillans, Solander. Low Blueberry. 



Fiequent from the Huron River east. This and 

 the Black Huckleberry are the only Ericaceae often 

 met with in Erie county and these not often west 

 of the Huron River. I know of none of this order 

 on the Islands and, excepting the Shin-leaf and 

 "Indian Pipe," none on the Peninsula. 



PRIHULACE^E. 



ANAGALLIS, L. Pimpernel. 



A. arvensis, L. Common Pimpernel. 

 "Sandusky." Victor Hommel. 



DODECATHEON, L. American Cowslip. 



D, meadia, L.* Shooting-Star. 



Castalia; rare. Called also Pride-of-Ohio, but 

 probably not one in a thousand of the people now 

 living in Ohio ever saw it growing wild. 



